The Bard's Tale
By inXile Entertainment
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Description
#1 RPG in 63 countries!
They said it couldn’t be done… a full-scale massive 3D epic role-playing game on iOS! See why it’s the BIGGEST iOS game ever made!
“The Bard’s Tale is easily the funniest game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played all the funny games out there.” – IGN
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Through magical song you summon characters to join you in battle, heal your party, and take damage on your behalf. Ready your weapon as you embark on a quest for coin and cleavage!
“Ready your weapon and bladder as you embark on this ridiculously addicting quest and the funniest adventure of the year, The Bard’s Tale” – Game Chronicles
Play The Bard’s Tale today on your favorite compatible iOS device*. Prepare to immerse yourself in over 20-30 hours of adventure, featuring:
• 50 enemy types (not counting bosses!)
• A vast world to explore with towns, wild forests, rivers, castles, towers, secret dungeons, snowy mountains, caverns, haunted tombs and more
• A full cast of bizarre NPC’s
• Over a dozen special boss enemies to defeat
• 16 magical characters to discover and then summon at will to aid you
• Over 150 unique items of weaponry, armor, instruments, tokens, artifacts and loot!
• More Song & Dance numbers than any other game, including a zombie dance-off!
• Over 14 hours of outstanding voice-acting from top Hollywood talent, including Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) as the Bard, and the inimitable Tony Jay as the Narrator
But wait! That’s not all! Enjoy these great new additions in the iOS version:
New Features:
• Leaderboards—for accumulated Silver and Experience!
• Achievements—over 50 spread throughout the game!
• Autosave—option to save automatically when you near a save-book in game.
• iCloud Saves—option to save to iCloud, enables sharing saves across your iOS devices.
• Time-Savers—optional in-app purchases are available to pump up your Bard and save you time! (Note: All such items are attainable through normal game-play, with time and persistence, just as in the original console release.)
Universal App with Adaptive Rendering:
For a single low price, play on all your compatible* devices! The Bard’s Tale takes full advantage of your hardware to maximize your experience--including HD resolution and 60Hz video refresh on capable devices.** iOS adaptation by Square One Games.
• iPad2: 1024x768 + enhanced rendering**
• iPhone4S: 960x640 + enhanced rendering**
• iPad: 512x384
• iPhone*: 480x320
• iPhone*/ iPod Touch*: 480x320
“This game is satire in its sharpest form” – Cheat Code Central
Play The Bard’s Tale today!
* Compatible with iOS 4.0 and higher on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 3rd generation, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPad, and iPad2.
** HD on iPhone 4S and iPad 2, including environment mapping, dynamic water surfaces, full shadow cast, and 60Hz display-refresh (with in-game “Battery Savings” option turned off).
Support:
We hear you, and we are committed to improving The Bard’s Tale for iOS. Please send support questions/comments through The Bard’s Tale Support link below. You are also welcome to join the discussion and get the latest news on our Facebook product page “The Bard’s Tale iOS”.
IT IS HUGE!
Please note: Installation over Wi-Fi can temporarily require as much as 3.4GB of free space on your device (for compressed download + uncompressed install).
What's New in Version 1.3
Bug Fixes:
• iCloud saved games now work for pre-existing saved games.
• iCloud saves games now sorted by time-stamp.
• Black-Screen issue resolved.
• Dialog will no longer skip on its own (which affected 4.x iOS users).
• The game will no longer auto-save if you are dying or have very low health (requires manual input to save in this case), and on loading a saved game with 0 or very low health will restore to 10 points of health.
• Saved games during wandering-monster encounters on World Map can now be loaded.
• The achievement for defeating the Bugbear of Houton is now awarded correctly.
• Hatcher should no longer go inactive preventing access to Firbolg Mines.
Other Support-Related Enhancements:
• Added dialog for the Gifting Button to have a chance to cancel before going to iTunes Store. Silver reward discontinued at direction of Apple review staff.
• Support-button now goes to custom support page for The Bard’s Tale (to include manual pages and information on known issues in addition to general support form).
• You can now (with instructions from Support staff) send us saved-games for analysis, and Customer Support can now correct problems with Hot-Mod Codes.
• Support staff can now redress loss of in-app-purchases from earlier bugs.
Customer Reviews
Meh
Don't know what all the hoopla is about. It's a great game in terms of the writing (I played it on PS3 a few years ago and loved it), but on the iPhone 4S, at least, the controls are clunky and the backgrounds often too dark. Wait til it's $1.99.
Great but...
There's a huge glitch where most of the time it would skip some dialogue and even scenes...I tried restarting my iPod and even reinstalling it. But it keeps skipping. It's really annoying since you're missing crucial storyline and the hilarious scenes everyone's talking about. Please fix/update as soon as you can. :(
The game is bug
There's a few bugs in the game. And now I am stuck at Hightowerland. I can't even walk up this path
- $5.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Jan 19, 2012
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 1.34 GB
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
- Seller: inXile Entertainment
- © 2004-2012 inXile entertaiment, inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Top In-App Purchases
- Bard Epic Transformation Training$2.99
- Coin Clipping Kit$0.99
- Bard Training$0.99
- Talent Boot Camp$2.99
- Discover Lost Silver Mine$2.99
- Bard Intensive Training$1.99
- Receive Inheritance$0.99
- Talent Correspondence School$0.99
- Win Dounby Lottery$1.99
- Sack of Adderstones$1.99
